[Melbourne-pm] Knockd for Web

Scott Penrose scottp at dd.com.au
Tue Jun 2 21:36:47 PDT 2009


----- "Simon Taylor" <simon at unisolve.com.au> wrote:
> Using knockd is emphatically not security through obscurity. As Scott
> has said, all of your normal security infrastructure remains in
> place.
> 
> In our uses of it, we routinely have HID systems like psad and ossec 
> running on public servers and these  do a great job of reporting on 
> suspicious traffic.
> 
> But it is knockd that dramatically reduces the attention you get from
> black hats and allows the often time-poor, overworked sys admin in an
> organisation to focus on the attacks that remain.
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon

Yes, well written. I have been trying to put into words what you have done here well. 

Scott
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